The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-09-02

FRIDAY, SEPT. 2, 1887,
OUR PARIS LETTER.

names past ana present; only Inc
work would require the encyclope-
die mind of Noltaire 10 commence,
and caution exercised not TO entrust
the task to the forty arm-chairists at
the Academy, IL its termination be
desired, before the orthodox walk
er," which is approaching compile.
ton with Cologne-Cathedral strides.
Well back 10 our 'mautons;" the
thirty.eight million inhabitants of
France are for the movement. at
least. Boulangists or Anti. Boulang-
lists. This derisiun has crowded out
Paul de Cassagnoc's twenly-four
hours league of Solutionists.
The people see in the ex-war
minister, victim, sacrificed to ap.
pease Bismarck and propitiate the
monarchists, so General Boulanger
seems to agree with them. Hence
the scene at the Lyons railway sta
ton, when Boulanger set off for his
command at Clermont Ferrand.
which his admirers view as New
Caledonia. They retarded the
starting of the engine two hours, TO
prulong the stay of the departing
lover, in the midst of 100000 adj
mirers. When Marie Antoinette
made her entry into Paris, the Aus
tran was welcomed with the cheers
Of the crOwd-all her lovers, she
was assured, and for whom in later
years when they had no bread, she
prescribed cakes, as a substitute.
The locomotive, during its compul-
sorry stand still, was covered with
pictures of the general, a bill poster
and his pot of stick fast having been
timely captured. Not content with
this, Long live Boulanger" was
chalked on the smoke stack, and
"Down with Grevy' on the wheels.
At one time the engine threatened
the human block on the line with
Juggernault pulyerizations.
There have been loan exhibitions
and public peeps at private colleo-
tions: very interesting show
bazaar could be arranged out of all
the Boulanger prose, poetry, papers,
pictures and popular Jewelry, of
which the General is the subject and
object. Only popular trinkets be-
come relics very rapidly. / have
seen Theirs, Macmahon, Gambetta,
and even Bazine, in their zenith
days, immortalized in every ma
terial, from aperient gingerbread
down to teXical lead in designs for
pipe heads, scarf and hair pins,
brooches, medals and watch chains
in linked sweetness long drawn out.
And these tributes Of affection, like
all tokens Of true love, are as much
things of the past rs the adored
themselves. Now that monarchal
nations will not allow the 1889 exhl-
bitiOn to come between the wind
and their nobility, much unoccupied
space exists. a fair portion of it
might be allocated to a retrospective
gallery of dead lions and their ac-
cessories. Every nation could there
send exhibits. 1t would be as pleas
ant to stroll through, rs ransacking
Q moth-eaten drawer of yellow, atom
ed love letters, embulned in lavend.
er, pansies, and roses, of half CEN
fury standing.
The hardest lesson to learn in
politics, and perhaps so it is the
most elementary, IS to hold your
tongue and do nothing. The ex-
tremists have just been punished
heavily for weak judgment in this
respect. They attacked the Rouvier
Cabinet without rhyme or reason,
for playing into the hands of the
royalists, and forming a joint stock
company to abduct all the virtues of
the republic. Having no case to 60
before the jury, they were beaten
by the tremendous majority of
Unionists and Conservatories-s some
200. Clemencean and his support
ers must have ridden for a fall, they
only number 1870 in a chamber of
$50. Since NJ, Grevy made the
great error, not to send for Clemen-
cean, pay him the platonic compli-
ment to accomplish the impossible,
form a ministry, the President has
come in for voleys of q bus, and
Clemencean has been in a chronic
sullen anger. His recent discourse
was failure; it was only stage
thunder, thrusting the sword into
water. Then again he has not been
straight with his friend Boulanger;
he has deserted the general in this
his hour of need, while hitherto
leaving the public to conclude, he
had linked his fortune with the gen
erals.
Time does not appear to intensity
enthusiasm for the annual fete of
the GLORIOUS fourteenth. Are fes-
rivals, like faiths, becoming deli
quescent? Or, is the crowd becom-
ing cynical in respect to political
and their windy ex-
Founders. France sadly needs re-
pose, she desires neither wars nor
rumors Of wars, but to work, save,
eat, drink, and in sence, play.
If some Peter the Hermit could
arise, and found an abstention from
politics society, for France, he would
be more redoubtable foe for Bis
marck than Boulanger or Paul De-
rOulede.